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| Thread ID: 105899 | 2009-12-18 02:54:00 | Help me understand the Southern Cross Cable | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 840732 | 2009-12-23 21:13:00 | Well as the SCC has been paid for it would make sense to lower the price for data much like removing the toll from a toll funded road. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 840733 | 2009-12-23 22:11:00 | Well as the SCC has been paid for it would make sense to lower the price for data much like removing the toll from a toll funded road. Why would they want to do that when they still have a "Near" monopoly in NZ and Australia and they are in the business of making money?, not "feeling" there motivation lol. |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 840734 | 2009-12-23 22:15:00 | Maybe if the data cost less we could get a better economy of scale as you would get more users. But of course there is no motivation so I agree with you. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 840735 | 2009-12-24 01:41:00 | *apparently* only 6% of all users are still on Dial-Up: tvnz.co.nz That means that ~90%+ are on broadband. Those who aren't are either too poor, technology illiterate, technophobes, or have no real use for the internet (yeah right). That means that it's not going to start costing less as masses come across from dial-up... As it stands now, the rule is that high volume users are doing P2P / file-sharing. Of course there's exceptions to the rule, but generally if you're doing 150GB a month it's coz you're trading media somehow ... Having a second provider may be good, but ultimately how cheap can it really be? End of the day ISP's still have a base charge that can't really be decreased much, as all ISP's have overheads like an 0800 number, and if they're reselling / wholesaling off Telecom then Telecom has equipment in the exchange which isn't cheap which must be paid off and then maintained. $145,000+ for each Whisper Cabinet / node isn't cheap... How would adding a second FTTN + Cabinet scenario enable that first one to be paid off faster, thereby "decreasing prices" for existing consumers? |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 840736 | 2009-12-24 02:05:00 | Those who aren't are either too poor, technology illiterate, technophobes, or have no real use for the internet (yeah right). A fair few of them will be in places like back home in Karamea. Just no broadband if you are outside the town or off the main road:crying For that matter there is no cellphone coverage either. Which just leaves Dial up or Farmside. (ever tried installing updates on dial up?:badpc:) It is an unfortunate fact that small isolated places get left out in this country unlike Aussie where they get subsidized(I think). Hopefully the rural broadband initiative will rectify some of this. :thumbs: |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 840737 | 2009-12-24 04:05:00 | Interestingly enough, Chorus aims to have more FTTN covering more of NZ by the end of 2011 than the Govt does in 10 years time! They've also been making "alliances" with rural farmers and things, so where power dies to a cabinet, they'll get a local farmer to hook up their generator (If Chorus can't get out before the cabinets internal batteries run out), to power the device until they get there, to help keep broadband running. |
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